Very appropriate words

[L Verge]

Wild Bill never stops studying (thank the gods), and he just shared some great words of wisdom for historians young and old to heed:

Alfred H. Kelly, “Clio and the Court: An Illicit Love Affair,” Supreme Court Review, 1965 (No. 1, 1965), at 144.

“I manipulated history in the best tradition of American advocacy, Carefully marshaling every scrap of evidence in favor of the desired interpretation, and just as carefully doctoring all the evidence to the contrary, either by suppressing it when that seemed plausible, or distorting it when suppression was not possible.”

Alfred H. Kelly, a noted lawyer and writer of Constitutional Law, worked on the Brown v. Bd. of Education et al. the 1954 school segregation case.

Manipulation of facts is a dangerous path to follow.